Английская Википедия:Gypsy family camp (Auschwitz)

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The Gypsy family camp (Шаблон:Lang-de) was Section B-IIe of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where Romani families deported to the camp were held together, instead of being separated as was typical at Auschwitz.Шаблон:Sfn

History

On 10 December 1942, Heinrich Himmler issued an order to send all Romani (Шаблон:Lang-de, "Gypsies") to concentration camps, including Auschwitz.Шаблон:Sfn A separate camp was set up at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, classed as Section B-IIe and known as the Шаблон:Lang ("Gypsy family camp"). The first transport of German Roma arrived on 26 February 1943, and was housed in Section B-IIe. Approximately 23,000 Roma had been brought to Auschwitz by 1944, of whom 20,000 died there.Шаблон:Sfn One transport of 1,700 Polish Sinti and Roma were killed in the gas chambers upon arrival, as they were suspected to be ill with spotted fever.Шаблон:Sfn

Roma and Sinti prisoners were used primarily for construction work.Шаблон:Sfn Thousands died of typhus and noma due to overcrowding, poor sanitary conditions, and malnutrition.Шаблон:Sfn Anywhere from 1,400 to 3,000 prisoners were transferred to other concentration camps before the murder of the remaining population.Шаблон:Efn

On 2 August 1944, the SS cleared the Gypsy camp. A witness in another part of the camp later told of the inmates unsuccessfully battling the SS with improvised weapons before being loaded into trucks. The surviving population (estimated at 2,897 to 5,600) was then killed en masse in the gas chambers.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The murder of the Romani people by the Nazis during World War II is known in the Romani language as the Porajmos (devouring).Шаблон:Sfn

One of the few survivors was Margarethe Kraus, who was subjected to medical experimentation and whose parents were murdered. She was subsequently moved to Ravensbruck.[1]

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